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- aywwts4, on 11/07/2007, -6/+89What a great example, they turn their server off when they are done using it, we could all learn from this.
- richardhenry, on 11/05/2007, -2/+60That would suck during the day.
- inactive, on 11/05/2007, -2/+43What if it was glow in the dark instead
- dallyp, on 11/05/2007, -2/+36Server seems to be low on energy....
- peterjmag, on 11/05/2007, -4/+31No.
- CerebroJD, on 11/05/2007, -0/+25Unless they actually painted the rest dark grey/black so that it looked right during the day as well... Hmm.
- OomBok, on 11/05/2007, -1/+20I just love my country :/
maybe someone will start posting some "hilarious" telkom ads, then everyone can see how we're being raped at $10/gb..... - krnldmp, on 11/05/2007, -1/+14Brilliant.
- loganhuddleston, on 11/05/2007, -3/+16or what, the web page will go down?
- Wrathernaut, on 11/05/2007, -4/+15A server that's off can't respond with a 500, 404 or any other error.
- maexus, on 11/05/2007, -1/+12This is a little more visible at night, which is the target time for this ad. I really must say it's clever. It's conveys a strong image, a single light in the darkness of night. Like a flashlight in a blackout.
- SlipStream89, on 11/05/2007, -4/+14......maybe.
- tehxen3, on 11/05/2007, -0/+7They should put their ad next to sattelite pic of North Korea at night...
- zzz@tkz, on 11/05/2007, -0/+7Good call, on further inspection, that appears to be what they did.
- inactive, on 11/05/2007, -0/+6I was just in So Africa last week. While there, the company I was visiting, had two black-outs lasting several hours. And every day, one section or another was out resulting in traffic lights being turned off.
- jouissance, on 11/05/2007, -2/+7diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick.
you fail. - osarhan, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5yes!
- inactive, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4I had a $120 excessive charge for going 1gb over in Australia. It was when they went from completely uncapped broadband to 3gb max overnight. 500mb was routinely advertised as being a massive download limit to suck in noncomputer literates until they brought in some laws.
Its not that bad now but still fairly crap, 20gb is about the average max and the seeds are 1.5mbit minimum and often 11mbit or 28mbit thanks to adsl2, fortunately a lot of the plans now shape your speed to 56k modem speed when you go over rather than charge.
Look at the plans here (assuming digg doesn't screw the long url up) The excessive charge ranges from $2 to $180, how the ***** can they get away with charging $180 for a single GB on a plan that is $40 for 15gb. 1gb over and you are paying 4x the cost of the 15gb plan:
http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-plan.cfm?state=vic&c ... - mirzar, on 11/05/2007, -1/+5mirror: http://www.ziked.com/post/18363754
- crashflow, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4Great Leader just wants you to save electricity, hence the massive blackouts.
- synik, on 11/05/2007, -2/+5that's what happens when you drive away all the white technicians. Things stop working.
- xquizit, on 11/05/2007, -1/+3wow, that's encouraging
- getsk3wled, on 11/05/2007, -1/+3that's neat. kind of kills the neatness with the server going down.
- vagarach, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2Haha, Telkom, don't I know allllll about it.
Just use a 3G phone, probably cheaper for internet, ala that Halo article. - inactive, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2Looks like digg's oh so wonderful comment system did nuke the url, just scroll down to the bottom and click the button. Are they going to fix the digg comments? Actually I would prefer if they didn't since each time they do it just makes things exponentially worse.
- spcurtis81, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Genius. A work of art!
- knetworx, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Anyone else illiterate?
- inactive, on 11/05/2007, -1/+2*****, I dugg you up :(
- dominoman44, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Excellent idea.
- Sinudeity, on 11/05/2007, -0/+0Ja OomBok.
Shout out to that! - inactive, on 11/05/2007, -1/+1*bitch slap*
- shanamistress, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0Yeah, cool advert - but the truth is Eskom completely dropped the ball with the electricity in SA, and it doesn't matter how many clever adverts will make anyone forget it.
Shana | http://www.campsbayholidays.co.za - mydave, on 07/25/2008, -0/+0oh Brilliant!
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - gymnoZphyter, on 11/05/2007, -0/+0I wish i could turn on just 1/4 of my body for using the computer
- ferdilouw, on 11/05/2007, -0/+0Living in South Africa: Every night at prime time all TV viewers are warned to switch of all non-essential electric equipment and lights, except for the TV. Later in the evening new messages update the viewer on the status. "Rolling black outs" is what they call the power failures that occur on purpose for hours all over the country.
It seems the shortage of electricity is due to a lack of planning in the national Eskom. It takes them years to reactivate the moth balled surplus power stations - never mind building new ones.
- knetworx, on 11/05/2007, -1/+1Oh come on people, that was funny! On a side note, did you know you can use candles for your Wii (in place of the sensor bar)? Digg me down, you spineless jellyfish!
- jouissance, on 11/05/2007, -3/+1nice pic.
- RyanDFA, on 11/05/2007, -3/+1Good video relating to the same topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 - osarhan, on 11/05/2007, -5/+3ha! brilliant!
- brentinkc, on 11/05/2007, -3/+0Is this directed at cops?
- stackered, on 11/05/2007, -9/+4internal server error
mirror:
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=mirror&gwp=8 ... - gkskillz, on 11/05/2007, -10/+5Mirror: http://www.hemmy.net/2007/11/05/eskom-save-electri ...
- Skepsis, on 11/05/2007, -16/+8It would have saved more electricity had they used candles.
- jpt62089, on 11/05/2007, -11/+2By crashing servers so they use less power?
- allyant, on 11/05/2007, -12/+2Looks like the server ran out of electricity.
- inactive, on 11/05/2007, -20/+4Yes.
- inactive, on 11/07/2007, -29/+2anyone else first read it as Eskimo?
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